Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

Children with autism are colourful – they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was...

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

If you can still wipe your own backside then life’s not that bad!

Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if...

My colors ran all over the page, poured out of the lines and meshed together to form colors no one had yet recognized. I was different–unique, bold, strong, smart, and hard-headed. I was simply me.

I Have a Dream… someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream… someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored...

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

But the Beast was a good person…the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn’t see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of...

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger’s lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

I love introverts. They don’t waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don’t trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.

I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers, remedial teachers, and the cab driver that gets him from appointment to appointment,...

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.

Teachers should be made aware of visual stress symptoms and the potential difference coloured lights, overlays and lenses could make to a learners perception.

Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I’m being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body’s now a speck, a speck from long before I...

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

You know, everybody’s ignorant, just on different subjects.

All people, whether Aspie or neuro-typical are predisposed by their society to make guesses, jump to conclusions and then seek to defend those conclusions, regardless of logic or changing circumstance. This is sloppy, illogical thinking...

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

We live in truly unbelievable times. Autism is an epidemic in most westerncountries, western governments are nothing more than corrupt corporations, and corporations areroutinely suppressing information regarding the toxicity of many common household items. The...

Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.

I think that people with autism are born outside the regime of civilization. Sure, this is just my own made-up theory, but I think that, as a result of all the killings in the world...

You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” – Bell Hooks

Everything can be summed up into an equation.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger’s. Like me, they’re very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn’t talk?

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did – that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were...

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re destroying the peg.

But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this...

This is where I go, when I go:It’s a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.I’m...

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow...

autism is more like retina patterns than measles

It is my understanding that when you receive a Autism diagnosis for your child you have to accept it. If you don’t you are only condemning yourself and your child to a life of frustrating...

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

The Internet,” [Judy] Singer said, “is a prosthetic device for people who can’t socialize without it.” For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is...

It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person ‘lacks empathy’ is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.

We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not...

The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves,...

Its not the label of autism we need for our children, its the help and understanding that comes with that label that we need.

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.–Ray Bradbury

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

… each day provided some tiny step forward, some steps so small you would miss them if you weren’t looking. I’m always looking- eager to witness that next miracle.

It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It’s not out of duty...

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.